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The Dual Language Immersion Program at Aldama Elementary School is providing a useful bridge for the parents, staff and children in Highland Park during a time of cultural and social transition. It is enriching the academic and cultural lives of the st...
Just as the Highline in New York City was re-purposed as a city park once it had outlived its usefulness, infrastructure such as the Arroyo Seco Parkway could potentially be re-imagined to respond to changing needs and behaviors in the city.
Many musicians have been inspired by Highland Park - Jackson Browne with "Lawless Avenues" and Eleanor Friedberger's "Inn of the Seventh Ray" comes to mind - but local band Artichoke and main songwriter Timothy Sellers are the first - and perhaps only ...
Outpost for Contemporary Art is part of the burgeoning scene of galleries and artist-run spaces popping up throughout Northeast Los Angeles. Founded by Julie Deemer in 2004, this cultural outpost produces cross-cultural exchanges and interdisciplinary ...
El Monte has produced numerous writers, including Benita Morgan Bishop who documents 1970s El Monte through the wide-eyed perspective of her young narrator.
Richard Duardo has been referred to as the "Warhol of the West," he has established a name for himself by producing prints of pop-culture icons.
The Flying Pigeon speciality bike shop has established Highland Park as a central locale for advocacy, education, and overall two-wheeled sophistication in the greater Los Angeles bicycle community.
The history agriculture in Los Angeles, as a catalyst for development, illustrates the strengths of the city's past as well as a blueprint for diversifying the current food system and thus improving community health.
Food change can easily begin at the community level with community gardens. Not only do these gardens increase food access, but they also transform neighborhoods in need of something beautiful and positive to identify with.
Healthy food practices also involve considering the conditions of food workers. Though food security is a human right we all should enjoy, the workers who grow, sell, cook and serve our food often suffer great injustices.
